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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf - 'Renaissance Manufacturing (Part Two)'
The American manufacturing sector is expected to add jobs in 2012 for the third consecutive year, after years of painful job eliminations.
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Parts of a Business Plan 1
This week, I want to discuss the cover sheet, business purpose, table of contents, business description and marketing strategies. Let’s get started!
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10 Ways To Significantly Improve Your Sales
The title of this article sounds a bit like an infomercial, which claims to make selling so simple that a child could do it and even borders on the ridiculous. Understanding the principles of sell...
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Celebrating Utah's Olympic Legacy
It's quite amazing to think a decade has passed since Salt Lake City hosted the Olympic Winter Games.
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf: 'Renaissance Manufacturing (Part One)'
Ahhhh, the “common wisdom” in America…so easy to pass on to associates, to family, and to friends The common wisdom is that we have lost our ability to “make things” in this country….lost it to Ch...
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Why You Need a Business Plan
Many of my clients ask if a business plan is really essential to open a new business or expand their existing business. The more I work with business plans, the more I am convinced that these docum...
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Salespeople Are Victims Of Stereotyping
There is no greater stereotype for a salesperson than that of the “used car” salesperson. I mean no offense to people who sell used cars, but truth be known, they have created a negative image wit...
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LaVarr Webb
Downtown Riser: Heart of City Coming Back to Life!
Living and working downtown is going to get a lot more fun and interesting in the next few weeks. Along with my neighbors, I’m excited to watch downtown come back to life. It’s going to be a big ce...
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf: 'A Good Jobs Report'
After three years of essentially lousy employment reports, the January 2012 report was simply better. Job growth exceeded expectations…it occurred in almost every employment classification…hours w...
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Tips for Successfully Closing the Deal
For small businesses, closing a deal is critical. You may have the best product or service available but without a wise strategy to close a deal or complete a sale, your business will suffer.
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Average Salespeople “Fly By The Seat Of Their Pants”
We live in a fascinating time in history and we are part of an interesting generation. The so called Baby Boomers are approaching and engaging retirement while generation “X” is left behind to sup...
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf - 'Not Your Father's Federal Reserve'
Whether one likes it or not this Federal Reserve, under the direction of Chairman Ben Bernanke, has not exactly been shy in turning traditional Fed actions on their collective head. Another major ...
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Effective Advertising
I love the Super Bowl — the excitement, the rivalry, the traditions and, of course, the commercials.
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Salespeople Are A Lot Like Doctors
There are many similarities between medical doctors and salespeople.
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf - 'The Danger Zone'
The world’s economy is “deeply into the danger zone” because of risks from the eurozone, the International Monetary Fund has stated.
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Business Continuity Planning
In 2002, I opened a small business in downtown Salt Lake City. The next year there was a catastrophic fire, and everything was lost in a matter of hours.
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Most Salespeople Never Planned A Career In Sales
I’ve only known one person in my entire life that planned a career in sales.
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EDCUtah Hosts Successful Entrada Open House
Annually, the evening before the "What's Up Down South?" summit in St. George, EDCUtah hosts its Entrada open house, which is a networking/educational event for Southern Utah elected officials, bus...
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Jeff Thredgold's Tea Leaf: 'Global ABC's'
This is the companion piece to Domestic ABC's of December 14, 2011.  In looking back to similar pieces six and 12 months ago, it’s amazing how little has changed.
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Implementing Your Balanced Scorecard
Over the last several weeks I’ve been reviewing the components of a balanced scorecard, a framework for managing and measuring both the financial and nonfinancial aspects of a business. This week I...
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Olympics gave Utah a five-ring economic boost (Salt Lake Tribune)

European troubles affect Utah (Davis County Clipper)

Black Diamond Prices Public Offering of Common Stock (Park Record)

Legacy of 2002 Winter Olympics lives on in Utah's economy (Deseret News)

A month out, City Creek tenants in hurry mode (Salt Lake Tribune)

Reclamation success: Salt Lake City warehouse gets a new life (Salt Lake Tribune)

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Barrick Sees Gold Stocks ‘Inflection Point’ as ETFs Nab Funds: Commodities (Bloomberg)

Express Scripts 4th-qtr profit lower than expected (Reuters)

Duke Energy, Progress File New Market Plan For Merger (Dow Jones)

Media General says exploring sale of newspapers (Reuters)

S.E.C. Charges 2 Chinese Executives With Fraud (New York Times)

Bankruptcy Judge Approves Solyndra Bonuses (Associated Press)

Home sales rise, but prices will be slow to follow (USA Today)

72 comments AT&T CEO pay docked $2 million for T-Mobile debacle (CNNMoney)

Fuller Brush Files for Bankruptcy (Wall Street Journal)

Global markets ease, focus moves to growth, oil (Reuters)

Why Debit-Card Overdraft Fees Are Under Scrutiny Again (Bloomberg)

IMF turns sights to its Greek bailout contribution (Reuters)

Hewlett-Packard Forecast Misses Estimates (Bloomberg)

Obama proposes cutting corporate tax rate to 28% from 35% (Los Angeles Times)

Shares Down Modestly, Ending a 4-Day Streak (New York Times)

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American Ripe for Takeover: Is US Airways Looking? (The Street) | 4 months ago

Crude Futures Follow Slumping Equities (Wall Street Journal) | 4 months ago

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